British Chairs

Outstanding quality antique Victorian carved walnut chair having an outstanding quality carved walnut oval back, carved walnut supports ,...

Rare fully stamped Victorian 1840 hoop back Windsor chair High Wycombe. Beautiful patina, wonderful workmanship and remarkably comfortable. Very sturdy...

We are delighted to offer for sale 1 of 6 lovely solid Elm hand sawn circa 1860 Windsor stick back armchair The Antique Windsor chair is a count...

We are delighted to offer for sale this rare fully restored circa 1860 Show framed Chesterfield tufted hand dyed brown leather library reading chair...

Charming armchair with scene decoration painted in medallion, England XIXth. Stripped and glued by our cabinetmaker.

Original Victorian style bergère armchair, fully restored.

Antique pair of quality Victorian ebonised side chairs having pretty ornate pierced shaped backs, newly reupholstered seats in a luxury grey crushed velvet fabric, elegant cabriolet ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely sublime fully restored Victorian Liberty’s London Thebes stool designed by L Wyburd This piece is as iconic and stylish as they come, anyone who knows and follows fine furniture will recognise this piece instantaneously The design of this three-legged stool is based on an ancient Egyptian prototype, an example of which, dating to 1550-1300 BC, is in the collection of the British Museum (EA 2481). The Liberty stool, patented in 1884, is one of three models, copying Egyptian originals, retailed by the firm. For a full discussion of the nineteenth century’s fascination with Egyptian stools see Donato Esposito, ‘From Ancient Egypt to Victorian London: the impact of ancient Egyptian furniture...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and important original Victorian Walnut Eton College captain’s chair with carved with EC in the...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of fully restored, Thomas Chippendale style, Victorian hand dyed brown leather Chesterfield buttoned club armchairs with Claw & Ba...

A fine quality 19th century antique Victorian carved walnut ladies chair having a marvelous walnut shaped carved back and top with a shaped support. It stands on elegantly shaped car...

Quality antique Victorian walnut carved ladies chair having a quality solid carved walnut back with lovely shaped turned carved supports and raised ...

Set of eight antique English late Victorian chairs English, c.1880 Measures: Height 87cm, width 46cm, depth 48cm These excellent chairs were craft...

Fine quality traditional form solid mahogany Victorian balloon back chair with "slip in" seat, upholstered in black and maroon pin-striped fabri...

Fine quality antique rosewood Victorian armchair having an attractive shaped moulded back and carefully carved shaped arms with a serpentine front rail. The cabriole legs to the fron...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of hand carved oak with rush seats Brittany chairs circa 1920. These chairs actually come from a ...

Unusual antique Victorian mahogany music chair having a lovely shaped turned top rail with a newly reupholstered seat in a quality fabric standing on shape...

We are delighted to offer this lovely suite of six original Victoria Walnut framed cabriolet legged dining chairs with Claw & Ball feet and Shepherds crook curved arms Please note...

We are delighted to offer for sale this elegant Hepplewhite Mahogany armchair with floral seat. The item simple and stylish armchair is suitable for any room. This splendid antiqu...

We are delighted to offer for sale 1 of 6 lovely solid burr yew with elm seat hand sawn circa 1860 Windsor stick back armchair I have six of these in stock, one exact pair and the...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of very important looking hand carved with giltwood accents occasional chairs These are very decorative side chairs, I’m sur...

Wimbledon-Furniture Wimbledon-Furniture is delighted to offer for sale this lovely solid Elm hand-sawn circa 1880 Windsor stick back armchair Please note the delivery fee liste...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to this stunning pair of fully restored hand dyed Whisky brown leather wade upholstery Wingba...

Glasgow Style Arts and Crafts caned oak arm chair with carved motif on the back and legs. Flared feet in the front. c.1900 Scottish school -- Wylie and Lochhead/ E.A. Taylor attribut...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Antique Victorian, hand carved solid oak & leather throne armchairs with original porcelain castors. A very good looking and...

Antique Victorian carved walnut armchair with an elegantly carved detail to the top and a lovely shaped walnut back. It boasts carved open arms...

Antique Victorian carved mahogany hall chair having a lovely carved shaped top, solid mahogany barley twist supports standing on shaped carv...

Victorian walnut & Mahogany cockfighting chair Circa 1875, atrributed to Wright and Mansfield The Chair frame & legs made of walnut, its backrest ...

Antique Victorian antique carved walnut turned leg armchair with a walnut framed back carved top rail lovely carved open arms turned reeded legs to...

A late 19th, early 20th century leather club arm chair, with scroll-over back and arms upholstered with the original red leather. The easy chair raised on front bun feet and square r...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, highly collectable, Limited Edition 52/150 Steward Linford William Shakespeare Metamorphic library steps armchair made from Historic Oak and Pewter from Shakespeare Warwickshire, exhibited in The Living Chair Museum This is pretty much the best-looking chair I have ever seen and certainly the most decorative library steps. The design is based on a Regency Gillow’s of Lancaster model of a metamorphic library steps, the idea being with tall Georgian bookcases you have a reading chair next to the bookcase and when you need to get a book down from on high, you simply flip the chair top over and you have steps This one has been specially made as a homage to William Shakespeare, the top of the back rest has been hand carved with a city scene depicting Shakespeare theatre, under we find a painted scene of Romeo courting Juliette, on the back you have William Shakespeare’s name hand carved in with the edition number 52/150, converting it to steps we find a pewter plaque...

Series of 8 English chairs, made around 1910, chair with high back in carved solid mahogany, green leather upholstery.

We are delighted to offer for sale this suite of six absolutely exquisite quality hand made in England Mahogany framed dining chairs after Gillows These chairs are honestly the fi...

We are delighted to this lovely pair of solid Burr Yew with elm seat hand sawn circa 1860 Windsor stick back armchairs I have six of these in st...

Outstanding quality antique Victorian pair of carved walnut chairs having outstanding quality carved walnut oval backs, carved walnut supports, carved walnut serpentine shaped front ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of late Victorian Honduras Mahogany side chairs with ornately carved Lion’s Hairy paw feet ...

A superb early 19th Century example of R W Winfield Iron Rocking Chair. History The firm of R.W. Winfield, one of the largest and most celebrated of English brassfounders, who ex...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Particular pair of chairs in walnut wood; the seat is wide and very comfortable and the covering has been redone over time with a delicate embroidered cotton, the front legs are "cabriole" that is a design shaped in two curves, the upper one convex and the lower one concave; a shape known by the ancient Chinese and Greeks, back in fashion in Europe at the end of the 17th century, when it was incorporated into the more curvilinear styles introduced in England, France and Holland, The most interesting part of the chair is the elegant and harmonious "ballon back...

We are delighted to offer this lovely Colexfax & Fowler floral upholstered Victorian armchair with hand carved show frame A very good looking and well made chair, this is what's ...

An elegant Hindley & Sons upholstered armchair with satinwood legs, newly covered using naturally dyed antique linen in bottle green. English, early nineteenth century.

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely solid elm hand sawn circa 1880 Windsor high back armchair The antique Windsor chair is a country pi...

We are delighted to offer for sale highly decorative and exquisitely made Antique Victorian circa 1870 Burgermeister chair based on a 17th design A very well made and decorative c...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of four original Maple & Co. solid mahogany dining chairs These chairs are part of a suite These are a very well made set, ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand made in England antique Victorian armchair with heavily carved Lion’s hairy paw feet in ...

An exclusive set of 6 Victorian Mahogany splat back dining chairs made by master carpenter James Reilly (1825 – 1889). The chairs have a balloon back ab...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

Victorian antique carved walnut chair having a beautiful carved detail to the top, shaped back with elegantly carved shaped arms with a se...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely solid ash and elm hand sawn circa 1880 Windsor stick back armchair The antique Windsor chair is a...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of eight original, early Victorian circa 1840, hand carved Jacobean revival dining chairs...

Very nicely appointed Victorian rush seated ladder back chair; English and mid 19th century. A little different with the fret back design,...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Antique Victorian hand carved Library reading armchair with Lion’s Hairy paw feet A very comfortable and well made piece, this chair...

19th century pair of ladder back armchairs from the Lancashire region of England. They are made from oak and elm and are wonderfully comfortable. The have hand turned spindles in the...

We are delighted to 1 of 6 lovely solid Yew hand sawn circa 1860 Windsor stick back armchair I have six of these in stock, one exact pair and th...

With dyed leather seat.

19th century English "Discipline" / posture chair Circa 1860. Diminutive tall stool type chair, made for a child to sit upright and straight. The two str...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of early 19th century Prie Dieu chairs made with solid walnut frames and the original thatched sears A great pair of occasion...

A pair of Victorian carved mahogany stools, each of square form with a pierced frieze and raised on scrolling cabriole legs, the drop-in seats upholstered in woven horsehair. English...

Quality 19th century Victorian carved walnut ladies chair with a walnut shaped framed back and pretty carved top rail. Newly reupholstered in a quality fabric and standing on carved ...